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Oakwood public safety recognized after March cardiac arrest; Premier Health presents challenge coins
Summary
Premier Health and Oakwood officials on Aug. 4 honored Oakwood Public Safety personnel and a dispatcher for lifesaving care following a March 11 out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, citing bystander CPR and rapid response as critical to the patient’s survival.
Oakwood officials and representatives from Premier Health on Aug. 4 presented challenge coins and a community-hero award to Oakwood Public Safety personnel and a dispatcher for their response to a March 11 cardiac arrest.
Daniel Rimm, an EMS coordinator with the Premier EMS Center of Excellence at Miami Valley, told the City Council that emergency medical services and bystander CPR helped save Lyons Hamlin after he collapsed during a family conversation. “Quick effective CPR is critical in the chain of survival,” Rimm said. “Without such immediate care and quick and effective CPR, Mr. Hamlin’s outcome may not have turned out the way it did.”
Rimm described that family members were performing CPR when medics arrived, that crews used a LUCAS mechanical CPR device and defibrillated Hamlin for ventricular fibrillation before he regained a normal rhythm and was transported to Miami Valley Hospital. According to Rimm’s remarks, Hamlin required two coronary stents for blockages in the left anterior descending artery and was discharged after a six-day hospital stay.
Rimm gave national context for the award: “Roughly 356,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur annually in the United States,” he said, and survival to hospital discharge after EMS treatment is “approximately only 10 percent.” He singled out bystander CPR and rapid professional care as decisive in Hamlin’s survival.
Premier Health presented cardiac-save challenge coins to Christopher Warwick, William Duis, Kyle Seward, Steve Norris and Justin Sloan, and awarded the Community Hero Award to dispatcher Carly Weishard for her role instructing bystanders on the 911 call. Mayor Duncan thanked the department and noted the city’s cross-training model: “Every one of our public safety officers is cross trained in police, fire, and either EMS or paramedic,” he said, praising the speed of the city’s response.
The presentation was ceremonial; council did not take formal legislative action during the recognition. City officials and Premier Health said the ceremony was intended to highlight the role of bystander CPR and rapid professional care in improving out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival.
